fieldpiece
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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What a Lovely War too often becomes bogged down in its own dogged sincerity and finally becomes mired, like some promising but unwieldy fieldpiece, in the Marne's mud.
From Time Magazine Archive
But General Foch's troops were well supplied with that terrible engine of destruction—the French 3-inch fieldpiece, known, as the 75-mm., an extremely powerful gun for its caliber.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne by Miller, Francis Trevelyan
We then tried a few shots with the fieldpiece, but the gun made bad practice, and the shells exploded very wildly and not according to the distances regulated by the fuses.
From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
A modern fieldpiece could easily throw a shell from Napoleon's headquarters over La Haie Sainte to Mont St. Jean, and far beyond into the forest.
From Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World by Ridpath, John Clark
Mick Kennedy trained his one eye like a fieldpiece upon the locality suggested.
From Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Lillibridge, Will
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